After scammers duped a friend with a hacked Twitter account and a “deal” on a MacBook, I enlisted the help of a fellow threat researcher to trace the criminals’ offline identities.
A major point here is that this scam was made more possible due to the challenges of accessibility, such as screen readers not conveying some of the usual signs of a scammer (if they smooth out abnormalities like strange capitalization and spelling errors). Even if people miss this article due to the subscription pop-up, at least let this be another reminder that accessibility of online content matters and that any of us could depend on it.
A major point here is that this scam was made more possible due to the challenges of accessibility, such as screen readers not conveying some of the usual signs of a scammer (if they smooth out abnormalities like strange capitalization and spelling errors). Even if people miss this article due to the subscription pop-up, at least let this be another reminder that accessibility of online content matters and that any of us could depend on it.